The Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a simplified variant of the industry-wide
TPC-C
TPC-C, short for Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C, is a benchmark used to compare the performance of online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. This industry standard was published in August 1992, and eventually replaced t ...
benchmarking standard originally developed by
IBM to compare the performance of their various
AS/400 (now
IBM i
IBM i (the ''i'' standing for ''integrated'') is an operating system developed by IBM for IBM Power Systems. It was originally released in 1988 as OS/400, as the sole operating system of the IBM AS/400 line of systems. It was renamed to i5/OS in ...
) server offerings.
The related, but less commonly used Computational Intensive Workload (CIW) measures performance in a situation where there is a high ratio of computation to input/output communication. The reverse situation is simulated by the CPW.
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External links
TPC slaps Oracle on benchmark claims The Register
Benchmarks (computing)
IBM software
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